On This Day in History On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a key aspect of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to help millions of unemployed. As part of his New Deal, at the height of the Great Depression, the WPA created government jobs for many of the nation’s unemployed. The

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February 28: On This Day in History In 1953, on February 28th, the chemical structure of DNA was discovered at Cambridge University by James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick. Their announcement included that they had determined that the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains human genes. Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA for